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PRDC Pty Ltd

 

 

PRDC was established to by two registered builders Frank Dobson and Garry Barton to satisfy the growing need for infrastructure construction services in Queensland.

 

Frank Dobson MBA

Registered Builder

 

Frank has over 30 years experience in the construction industry – first registered as a builder in 1979. Frank Dobson is the Project Manager for PRDC. He has built numerous large houses, four shopping centres, four office blocks, eight large office warehouse projects, a fourteen storey high rise, and numerous blocks of units.  In recent years there has been a concentration on retirement villages, subdivisions and hotel renovations (further details are available on the Projects page of this website).  He is the recipient of a large number of awards including Australian House of the Year.  The most recent awards were Hotel Renovation of the Year and the Runner Up in 2005.

 

Dobson Projects currently employs 20 tradesmen and 19 apprentices.  Additional subcontractors are available. A large number of consultants are also available.

 

 

Garry Barton  MBA B.Bus

Registered Builder

 

Garry has held senior executive positions in major blue chip organisations such as BHP, Price Waterhouse and Metway Bank and as a Consultant has advised many private industry clients on property related matters. He spent over 10 years working on property planning, development and management in his roles as Manager Port Operations and Manager Strategy Development at the Port of Brisbane Corporation and as Business Development Manager with Grainco where he worked with the current Lord Mayor of Brisbane – Campbell Newman.

 

During his time with the Port he developed the PBC Land Use Plan, Key Port Brisbane Master Plan and was on the Steering Committee for the Gateway Ports Strategic Plan. As Manager Port Operations he was responsible for the maintenance of all port infrastructure including wharves, buildings and port roads. He was instrumental in establishing the Development Assessment function at PBC. These planning activities and his responsibility for all commercial and planning negotiations on over 2,000 of Port land enabled him to establish an extensive network within the Council and State Government. He also assisted the BCC Urban Management Division to develop a 2025 Futures Paper for publication by the Council.

 

Garry has an extensive financé background resulting from his strategic planning roles at Metway Bank and his role as the State Manager Financial Planning. While at the Bank he established and ran the Financial Planning Service, helped establish the commercial lending division, developed their ADF and Superannuation Products and wrote the Strategic Plan which resulted in the conversion of the Metropolitan Permanent Building Society to a Bank. He has also played a key role in funding infrastructure eg Port Road, Leasing of the Brisbane Airport, and Development of a $7.5 million multipurpose warehouse at Appleton Dock in Melbourne.

 

Garry holds a Master of Business Administration (major Finance) and Bachelor of Business (majors Personnel Management and Marketing) He is qualified as an Accountant and has satisfied the ASX membership requirements. He has also studied civil engineering and worked with McWilliam and Partners Consulting Engineers.

 

Garry has been a Director of a public unlisted property development Binnaton Holdings Limited since its formation in 2005 and wrote the business plan underlying its development. He has over 8 years experience as a Director and Secretary of two private consultancy companies involved in Property Remediation and eCommerce. Garry was successful in convincing Mirvac to trial its environmentally friendly biotechnology solution on the Newstead River Park site at Newstead.